Saturday, May 19th 2007 by Abby McVay
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Loading ...Ever wonder what Pac-Man’s skeleton would look like? Well apparently so did the artist that created this. What do you think, did he capture the spirit of the true Pac-Man or is it just a circle with teeth?
The Pac-Man skeleton was created by Le Gentil Garcon with help from paleontologist Francois Escuilie in 2002. They created it by observing the human skull and different predatory animal skulls.
It is 35cm in diameter and made of plaster. The artist has several works, all equally odd, but interesting nonetheless.
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haha, that is hilarious :P
I’m going to have nightmares tonight! Thanks a lot Abby.
Hey, that’s what I’m here for. :P
So now all night Vincent is going to be running around chomping pills because he’s being chased by ghosts and can’t sleep!
Pac Man Didn’t have any teeth!
Hey he could have! Maybe the graphics were just so shotty that they were afraid showing the teeth might be too much detail. lol
Hahaha, thats fantastic, he should make molds and cast them to sell commercially, I am sure he would sell more than a few.
The cartoon series version might have teeth.
Either way, you can’t say that Pac-Man or Ms. Pac-Man doesn’t have teeth. Just because teeth aren’t seen on the side profile doesn’t mean that teeth aren’t inside its mouth. You could just as easily say Pac-Man doesn’t have a skeleton either.
Anyway… cool idea/art project.
Yo where are his eye sockets??? I mean pacman had eyes didnt he???
no i dont.
You’re alive!!!!
omg, see you heard it straight from the source, pacman has no eye sockets!
I wish packman has a tail!
pac-man vs. frogger…who do you think would win in a fight? pac-man has his teeth and frogger has an indiana jones whip like tongue.
pac-man or frogger?
that sorta reminds me of “Alien”…with a round skull :P
I simply wonder, why I did not see something like that all the years before…
Hi, it’s me Kevin Blows from Digg. I suck *****.
26 teeth?! No magic number :O( But funny, nevertheless!
Der Klempner
I agree with Johnny - he needs eye sockets!
absolutly AMAZING! :))
excellent stuff, keep it up! ;)
Ahhh the good old days:)
Great, but where are the eye sockets?
I can just imagine some archaeologist digging this up in the year 2500.
Aren’t the recessed area’s above the jaw hinges the eye sockets?
Where are the eye sockets indeed? And no, those ridges are not eye sockets. Under those ridges of “bone” would sit the “jaw muscles”, if pac-man ever had lived.
Now in H.D. you are going to see hi’s teeths :P
i dont see holes for the eyes. hahaha! but still, nice piece of exhibit. worth musing over. =)
regards.
rapid prototyping lives and grows
This got to go to museum with all the dinasour fosil
Skeet skeet skeet skeet!
From a Dentist’s perspective, I find it odd that all third molars are missing. Also, the lingual and mental foramen seem absent, indicating no nerve or blood penetration in to the mandible. I advise taking a panorex radiograph.
wow… this is soo funny. i started to giggle like a little girl when i saw this. i almost peed my pants.
Where are the eyesockets?
Lawl!
That’s cool.
It made me good mod.
hahaha sweet :))))
the eye sockets are there just not visible.. If you look at the front profile carefully you can see the empty regions towards the rear of the skull where the eyes would be on pac-man, the angle of the side profile obscures this detail I believe and makes it appear that it is in fact a solid un-broken portion of skull back there.
Pac-man is like a bird or fish and his eyes point outwards looking to both his sides which means he probably uses those quick jerk like head movements to look around.. creepy.
Actually, if my local Petco will suffice as evidence, we have something here labeled a Pac-Man Frog.
So my guess is: “Both, and it looks like they got it on!”
This is really funny. This looks like a prehistoric Pac-man in the “pac-urassic” times. Very interesting, indeed!
Pacman has no eyes - as you can see here:
http://www.verrando.com/arcade/shots/puckman.gif
(Pacman was originally called Puckman, until they realised it was a crap name. Or there was some sort of translation error or something. I forget.)
Hehe. I fancy it.
wow i don’t know why i looked at this and i don’t know why yuo people looked at it.
Why did yall looked at this?
They saw possibility for vandals to scratch out part of the P, turning it into an F.
Puckman -> F…
Where are holes for eyes ???? :) :) :)
haha..nice job.
Excellent! I’ve drawn my share of PAC-MANs on scrap paper (original, ms.pac, super, the one that appears on the arcade cabinet, LED pac-mans, etc), so I can appreciate this form of art, especially in this case.
:)
and to think, I didn’t know Pac-Man had teeth!
Guess ya learn something new everyday! ;)
Very impressive :)
But why has Pacman got a hole in the bottom of his skull? Unlike humans he has no neck and thus no need for a hole in the bottom of his head - this soft patch would be a major point of weakness.
Unlike others, I think the lack of eye sockets might be correct - weakly attached eyes might detach when the rest of him was consumed by a ghost.
And how would he turn inside out when he dies?
That would be awesomely gross with that skeleton in there.
haha, I love it :P
I never really thought about what Pac-Man,s skeleton would look like. But, I guess,this is how it would look. Pretty funny.
Look 2,500 or more into the future and see the people think we had real live Pac-Men if you don,t clarify that this is a game one! Animals shaped like Pac-men. That,s what they could think if this isnt labelled properly.
Uh… aren’t those things near the back of his head eyesockets?
Ever wonder what REALLY happened to Pac-man? This video gives the inside scoop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEIcNB-Wm78 . It should really be a VH1 special ;-)
While the in-game Pac didn’t there was a rubber squeaker back in the day that did, indeed, include teeth which, realistically (?!) Paccy would need to chomp through monsters, dots, fruit, keys, the Galaxian and anything else that found it’s way in front of him.
Since when Pac-Man have teeth? lol
Chomp Chomp
That’s great. I wish I was that creative.